God, You have taught me from my youth,
and I still proclaim Your wonderful works.

A Davidic psalm.Lord, I call on You; hurry to help me.
Listen to my voice when I call on You.

He made darkness a canopy around Him,
a gathering of water and thick clouds.

Anyone who touches his bed is to wash his clothes and bathe with water, and he will remain unclean until evening.

His roots below dry up,
and his branches above wither away.

And from that time he started looking for a good opportunity to betray Him.

take note: I will sweep away Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat:

and said to him, “My lord, don’t hold me guilty, and don’t remember your servant’s wrongdoing on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. May the king not take it to heart.

Every morning and evening for 40 days the Philistine came forward and took his stand.

and continued to be successful in all his activities because the Lord was with him.

For the purification of the unclean person, they are to take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and add fresh water to them.

Those who were at the table with Him began to say among themselves, “Who is this man who even forgives sins?”

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by Yahweh’s name, and they will stand in awe of you.

“When a man consecrates his house as holy to the Lord, the priest will assess its value, whether high or low. The price will stand just as the priest assesses it.

The total in their military divisions who belong to Ephraim’s encampment number 108,100; they will move out third.

So he built an altar there, called on the name of Yahweh, and pitched his tent there. Isaac’s slaves also dug a well there.

Judah and the land of Israel were your merchants. They exchanged wheat from Minnith, meal, honey, oil, and balm, for your goods.

who destroys the omens of the false prophets
and makes fools of diviners;
who confounds the wise
and makes their knowledge foolishness;

If it spreads further on the skin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is an infection.

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?

And news about Him began to go out to every place in the vicinity.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,
and the light around me will be night”—

Watch! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy my field in Anathoth for yourself, for you own the right of redemption to buy it.’

“Son of man, speak with the elders of Israel and tell them: This is what the Lord God says: Are you coming to consult Me? As I live, I will not be consulted by you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

The word of the Lord came to me again:

Smoke billows from his nostrils
as from a boiling pot or burning reeds.

When He is at work to the north, I cannot see Him;
when He turns south, I cannot find Him.

“Get up and go to meet Ahab king of Israel, who is in Samaria. You’ll find him in Naboth’s vineyard, where he has gone to take possession of it.

But God says to the wicked:
“What right do you have to recite My statutes
and to take My covenant on your lips?

Lord God, do not reject Your anointed one;
remember the loyalty of Your servant David.

“The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you. They will march out against you from one direction but flee from you in seven directions.

Therefore declare: I grant him My covenant of peace.

it was the west gate and the gate of Shallecheth on the ascending highway for Shuppim and Hosah.

There were guards stationed at every watch.

They have quickly turned from the way I commanded them; they have made for themselves an image of a calf. They have bowed down to it, sacrificed to it, and said, ‘Israel, this is your God, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.’”

Again, he sent other slaves, more than the first group, and they did the same to them.

But you may take the women, children, animals, and whatever else is in the city—all its spoil—as plunder. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies that the Lord your God has given you.

To those men he said, ‘You also go to my vineyard, and I’ll give you whatever is right.’ So off they went.

but they had killed 360 of the Benjaminites and Abner’s men.

a woman who is in her menstrual period; anyone who has a discharge, whether male or female; and a man who sleeps with an unclean woman.”

And if they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.

Therefore, the one who takes an oath by the altar takes an oath by it and by everything on it.

He satisfies you with goodness;
your youth is renewed like the eagle.

but they could not find a way to do it, because all the people were captivated by what they heard.

How, then, would the Scriptures be fulfilled that say it must happen this way?”

Then He will send rain for your seed that you have sown in the ground, and the food, the produce of the ground, will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in open pastures.

“As for you, son of man, will you pass judgment? Will you pass judgment against the city of blood? Then explain all her detestable practices to her.

They will be horrified;
pain and agony will seize them;
they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look at each other,
their faces flushed with fear.

I will make her princes and sages drunk,
along with her governors, officials, and warriors.
Then they will fall asleep forever
and never wake up.
This is the King’s declaration;
Yahweh of Hosts is His name.

Mourn, inhabitants of the coastland,
you merchants of Sidon;
your agents have crossed the sea

This is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore their fortunes, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities, ‘May the Lord bless you, righteous settlement, holy mountain.’

Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
coming up from washing,
each one having a twin,
and not one missing.

He made darkness His hiding place,
dark storm clouds His canopy around Him.

not including their 7,337 male and female slaves, and their 200 male and female singers.

For the choir director: with stringed instruments. A Davidic Maskil. When the Ziphites went and said to Saul, “Is David not hiding among us?”God, save me by Your name,
and vindicate me by Your might!

Then he went up and lay on the boy: he put mouth to mouth, eye to eye, hand to hand. While he bent down over him, the boy’s flesh became warm.

This is what the Lord says: I am about to bring disaster on this place and on its inhabitants, fulfilling all the words of the book that the king of Judah has read,

Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he became king and reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord his God.

For the sons of that wicked Athaliah broke into the Lord’s temple and even used the sacred things of the Lord’s temple for the Baals.”

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice,
and let them say among the nations, “The Lord is King!”

He is to say to them: ‘Listen, Israel: Today you are about to engage in battle with your enemies. Do not be cowardly. Do not be afraid, alarmed, or terrified because of them.

So they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.

“Therefore, what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

They went to Gilead and to the land of the Hittites and continued on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

The border turned westward from Baalah to Mount Seir, went to the northern slope of Mount Jearim (that is, Chesalon), descended to Beth-shemesh, and proceeded to Timnah.

“I will turn to you, make you fruitful and multiply you, and confirm My covenant with you.

When Saul had seen David going out to confront the Philistine, he asked Abner the commander of the army, “Whose son is this youth, Abner?”

“My king, as surely as you live, I don’t know,” Abner replied.

A spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but someone who touches a carcass in it will become unclean.

Any edible food coming into contact with that unclean water will become unclean, and any drinkable liquid in any container will become unclean.

“I am not able to,” Joseph answered Pharaoh. “It is God who will give Pharaoh a favorable answer.”

Then God came to Balaam and asked, “Who are these men with you?”

you are to say, ‘Your servants, both we and our fathers, have raised livestock from our youth until now.’ Then you will be allowed to settle in the land of Goshen, since all shepherds are abhorrent to Egyptians.”

“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are prophesying. Say to those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the Lord!

“Now, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One person speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear what the message is that comes from the Lord!’

“Build houses and live in them. Plant gardens and eat their produce.

Your singing will be like that
on the night of a holy festival,
and your heart will rejoice
like one who walks to the music of a flute,
going up to the mountain of the Lord,
to the Rock of Israel.

Yet, I will restore the fortunes of Moab in the last days.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
The judgment on Moab ends here.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord when Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities:

For there will be a day when watchmen will call out
in the hill country of Ephraim,
“Get up, let’s go up to Zion,
to Yahweh our God!”

Lord, be gracious to us! We wait for You.
Be our strength every morning
and our salvation in time of trouble.

I gain understanding from Your precepts;
therefore I hate every false way.

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit,
and whoever looks after his master will be honored.

For the Lord has chosen Zion;
He has desired it for His home:

This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and has appointed me to build Him a temple at Jerusalem in Judah. Whoever among you of His people may go up, and may the Lord his God be with him.

He causes this to happen for punishment,
for His land, or for His faithful love.

So he went to the king, and the king asked him, “Micaiah, should we go to Ramoth-gilead for war, or should we refrain?”

Micaiah told him, “March up and succeed. Yahweh will hand it over to the king.”

Jeroboam’s wife did that: she went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Ahijah could not see; his gaze was fixed due to his age.

“How can you say, ‘I love you,’” she told him, “when your heart is not with me? This is the third time you have mocked me and not told me what makes your strength so great!”

For the waves of death engulfed me;
the torrents of destruction terrified me.

Perhaps the Lord will see my affliction and restore goodness to me instead of Shimei’s curses today.”

Just as he finished offering the burnt offering, Samuel arrived. So Saul went out to greet him,

the one presenting his offering to the Lord must also present a grain offering of two quarts of fine flour mixed with a quart of oil.

“If you have so many people,” Joshua replied to them, “go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim’s hill country is too small for you.”

Moses then summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and courageous, for you will go with this people into the land the Lord swore to give to their fathers. You will enable them to take possession of it.

“Make a bronze basin for washing and a bronze stand for it. Set it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water in it.

Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead.

Saul, however, was still at Gilgal, and all his troops were gripped with fear.

So Manoah got up and followed his wife. When he came to the man, he asked, “Are You the man who spoke to my wife?”

“I am,” He said.

His military division numbers 32,200.

When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned My holy name, because it was said about them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh, yet they had to leave His land in exile.’

So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon. I have even given him the wild animals to serve him.

They will eat equal portions besides what he has received from the sale of the family estate.

When his son Isaac was eight days old, Abraham circumcised him, as God had commanded him.

Gold and glass do not compare with it,
and articles of fine gold cannot be exchanged for it.

So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.

And Abraham gave gifts to the sons of his concubines, but while he was still alive he sent them eastward, away from his son Isaac, to the land of the East.

I will establish for them a place renowned for its agriculture, and they will no longer be victims of famine in the land. They will no longer endure the insults of the nations.

“You, mountains of Israel, will produce your branches and bear your fruit for My people Israel, since their arrival is near.

For this is what the Lord God says: “See, I am about to bring King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a vast company of troops.

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

what could I do when God stands up to judge?
How should I answer Him when He calls me to account?

“I have kept silent from ages past;
I have been quiet and restrained Myself.
But now, I will groan like a woman in labor,
gasping breathlessly.

They crush olives in their presses;
they tread the winepresses, but go thirsty.

“Therefore, take note! Days are coming”—the Lord’s declaration—“when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. Topheth will become a cemetery, because there will be no other burial place.

Then Tamar went to his house while Amnon was lying down. She took dough, kneaded it, made cakes in his presence, and baked them.

Therefore, in the east honor the Lord!
In the islands of the west
honor the name of Yahweh,
the God of Israel.

My house guests and female servants regard me as a stranger;
I am a foreigner in their sight.

Then Elijah said to her, “Don’t be afraid; go and do as you have said. But first make me a small loaf from it and bring it out to me. Afterward, you may make some for yourself and your son,

So she proceeded to do according to the word of Elijah. Then the woman, Elijah, and her household ate for many days.

The priests, Levites, singers, gatekeepers, temple servants, and some of the people settled in their towns, and the rest of Israel settled in their towns.

After they arrived at the Lord’s house in Jerusalem, some of the family leaders gave freewill offerings for the house of God in order to have it rebuilt on its original site.

Whoever kills an animal is to make restitution for it, life for life.

Rejoice during your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your gates.

Jehoshaphat also made peace with the king of Israel.

The king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!”

“I bow before you,” Ziba said. “May you look favorably on me, my lord the king!”

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Praise the Lord who championed my cause against Nabal’s insults and restrained His servant from doing evil. The Lord brought Nabal’s evil deeds back on his own head.”

Then David sent messengers to speak to Abigail about marrying him.

The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat.

So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as intelligent and wise as you are.

Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as an inheritance.

You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you.

No one calls on Your name,
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us
and made us melt because of our iniquity.

This is the law for someone with a discharge: a man who has an emission of semen, becoming unclean by it;

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. A large stone covered the opening of the well.

She sees that her profits are good,
and her lamp never goes out at night.

They will not defile themselves anymore with their idols, their detestable things, and all their transgressions. I will save them from all their apostasies by which they sinned, and I will cleanse them. Then they will be My people, and I will be their God.

Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God, I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.

When I tell the righteous person that he will surely live, but he trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteousness will be remembered, and he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.

Jacob built an altar there and called the place God of Bethel because it was there that God had revealed Himself to him when he was fleeing from his brother.

I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army, including horses and riders, who are all splendidly dressed, a huge company armed with shields and bucklers, all of them brandishing swords.

Think of Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon,
with beautiful branches and shady foliage
and of lofty height.
Its top was among the clouds.

These evil people, who refuse to listen to Me, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who have followed other gods to serve and worship—they will be like this underwear, of no use at all.

He will not cry out or shout
or make His voice heard in the streets.

I also said to them: Each of you must throw away the detestable things that are before your eyes and not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am Yahweh your God.

When he has leveled its surface,
does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?
He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,
with spelt as their border.

Yes, the islands will wait for Me
with the ships of Tarshish in the lead,
to bring your children from far away,
their silver and gold with them,
for the honor of the Lord your God,
the Holy One of Israel,
who has glorified you.

The Lord will protect your coming and going
both now and forever.

In God, whose word I praise,
in God I trust; I will not fear.
What can man do to me?

She abandons her eggs on the ground
and lets them be warmed in the sand.

Therefore My people will know My name;
therefore they will know on that day
that I am He who says:
Here I am.”

A miner puts an end to the darkness;
he probes the deepest recesses
for ore in the gloomy darkness.

The Lord thundered from heaven;
the Most High projected His voice.

Let his own eyes see his demise;
let him drink from the Almighty’s wrath!

and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel blew the trumpets regularly before the ark of the covenant of God.

sown in dishonor, raised in glory;
sown in weakness, raised in power;

However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have decided to seek God.”

They forded the Jordan to bring the king’s household across and do whatever the king desired.

When Shimei son of Gera crossed the Jordan, he fell down before the king

And when the south wind is blowing, you say, ‘It’s going to be a scorcher!’ and it is.

Then Moses became angry and said to the Lord, “Don’t respect their offering. I have not taken one donkey from them or mistreated a single one of them.”

This was the sin that caused the house of Jeroboam to be wiped out and annihilated from the face of the earth.

Merari’s descendants received 12 cities for their clans from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.

So we have presented to the Lord an offering of the gold articles each man found—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

saying, “I am now 120 years old; I can no longer act as your leader. The Lord has told me, ‘You will not cross this Jordan.’

There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite named Shua; he took her as a wife and slept with her.

Then Abimelech took sheep and cattle and male and female slaves, gave them to Abraham, and returned his wife Sarah to him.

The Lord spoke to Moses:

When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him.

A man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father,
but one who consorts with prostitutes destroys his wealth.

You will be filled with drunkenness and grief,
with a cup of devastation and desolation,
the cup of your sister Samaria.

All eyes look to You,
and You give them their food at the proper time.

Leave Babylon,
flee from the Chaldeans!
Declare with a shout of joy,
proclaim this,
let it go out to the end of the earth;
announce,
“The Lord has redeemed His servant Jacob!”

You divided the sea with Your strength;
You smashed the heads of the sea monsters in the waters;

Who are these who fly like a cloud,
like doves to their shelters?

Jeremiah chanted a dirge over Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women still speak of Josiah in their dirges to this very day. They established them as a statute for Israel, and indeed they are written in the Dirges.

Even young boys scorn me.
When I stand up, they mock me.

Now, Lord, what do I wait for?
My hope is in You.

He must return the fruit of his labor without consuming it;
he doesn’t enjoy the profits from his trading.

know for certain that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations out before you. They will become a snare and a trap for you, a scourge for your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you disappear from this good land the Lord your God has given you.

But God understands the way to wisdom,
and He knows its location.

so that they may fear You
and walk in Your ways
all the days they live on the land
You gave our ancestors.

The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him.

Please let your servant return so that I may die in my own city near the tomb of my father and mother. But here is your servant Chimham: let him cross over with my lord the king. Do for him what seems good to you.”

So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, for there was no bread there except the bread of the Presence that had been removed from the presence of the Lord. When the bread was removed, it had been replaced with warm bread.

for Israel’s King Ahab asked Judah’s King Jehoshaphat, “Will you go with me to Ramoth-gilead?”

He replied to him, “I am as you are, my people as your people; we will be with you in the battle.”

They were at the great stone in Gibeon when Amasa joined them. Joab was wearing his uniform and over it was a belt around his waist with a sword in its sheath. As he approached, the sword fell out.

But I took your father Abraham from the region beyond the Euphrates River, led him throughout the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

When the time came for her to give birth, there were twins in her womb.

I made you thrive like plants of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were stark naked.

But Moses did not give a portion to the tribe of Levi. The Lord, the God of Israel, was their inheritance, just as He had promised them.

Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.”

“Tomorrow you will hear him,” he replied.

“Then the Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Sihon and his land to you. Begin to take possession of it.’

Laban said to him, “Yes, you are my own flesh and blood.”

After Jacob had stayed with him a month,

Then all the Israelites did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

“Now suppose the man has a violent son, who sheds blood and does any of these things,

However, the Chaldean army pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, arrested him, and brought him to Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon’s king, at Riblah in the land of Hamath. The king passed sentence on him there.

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

Where now is your king,
that he may save you in all your cities,
and the rulers you demanded, saying,
“Give me a king and leaders”?

Trusting an unreliable person in a difficult time
is like a rotten tooth or a faltering foot.

for their Redeemer is strong,
and He will take up their case against you.

If they had really stood in My council,
they would have enabled My people to hear My words
and would have turned them back from their evil ways
and their evil deeds.

To be a thief’s partner is to hate oneself;
he hears the curse but will not testify.

I thought that age should speak
and maturity should teach wisdom.

God’s chariots are tens of thousands,
thousands and thousands;
the Lord is among them in the sanctuary
as He was at Sinai.

No one who waits for You
will be disgraced;
those who act treacherously without cause
will be disgraced.

The lips of the wise broadcast knowledge,
but not so the heart of fools.

As for the holy people who are in the land,
they are the noble ones.
All my delight is in them.

When you set him free, do not send him away empty-handed.

Remember them, my God, for defiling the priesthood as well as the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites.

Then Amaziah gathered Judah and assembled them according to ancestral house, according to commanders of thousands, and according to commanders of hundreds. He numbered those 20 years old or more for all Judah and Benjamin. He found there to be 300,000 choice men who could serve in the army, bearing spear and shield.

This same Hezekiah blocked the outlet of the water of the Upper Gihon and channeled it smoothly downward and westward to the city of David. Hezekiah succeeded in everything he did.

Jehoshaphat also appointed in Jerusalem some of the Levites and priests and some of the heads of the Israelite families for deciding the Lord’s will and for settling disputes of the residents of Jerusalem.

“‘After that, if you obey all I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and My commands as My servant David did, I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give you Israel.

Then Jehu looked for Ahaziah, and Jehu’s soldiers captured him (he was hiding in Samaria). So they brought Ahaziah to Jehu, and they killed him. The soldiers buried him, for they said, “He is the grandson of Jehoshaphat who sought the Lord with all his heart.” So no one from the house of Ahaziah had the strength to rule the kingdom.

Then King Asa brought all Judah, and they carried away the stones of Ramah and the timbers Baasha had built it with. Then he built Geba and Mizpah with them.

Then the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel today. Send me a man so we can fight each other!”

but they didn’t turn away from the sins that the house of Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit. Jehoahaz walked in them, and the Asherah pole also remained standing in Samaria.

But then, at the end of three years, two of Shimei’s slaves ran away to Achish son of Maacah, king of Gath. Shimei was informed, “Look, your slaves are in Gath.”

There is no peace for the wicked,”
says my God.

When he was removed from the highway, all the men passed by and followed Joab to pursue Sheba son of Bichri.

So Abimelech and all the people with him got up at night and waited in ambush for Shechem in four units.

There is no speech; there are no words;
their voice is not heard.

So Abimelech fought against the city that entire day, captured it, and killed the people who were in it. Then he tore down the city and sowed it with salt.

She also said, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son for him in his old age.”

When Moses heard this, he fell facedown.

Heshbon with its pasturelands, and Jazer with its pasturelands—four cities in all.

Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and worshiped.

Exalt the Lord our God;
bow in worship at His footstool.
He is holy.

So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their choice young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary. He had no pity on young men or young women, elderly or aged; He handed them all over to him.

This is what the Lord God says: “This is the border you will use to divide the land as an inheritance for the 12 tribes of Israel. Joseph will receive two shares.

In addition, Your servant is warned by them;
there is great reward in keeping them.

For jealousy enrages a husband,
and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

The noisy city, the jubilant town,
is filled with revelry.
Your dead did not die by the sword;
they were not killed in battle.

A person who is full tramples on a honeycomb,
but to a hungry person, any bitter thing is sweet.

He is clearing the thickets of the forest with an ax,
and Lebanon with its majesty will fall.

if I have eaten my few crumbs alone
without letting the fatherless eat any of it—

God spares his soul from the Pit,
his life from crossing the river of death.

Be careful that no one lures you with riches;
do not let a large ransom lead you astray.

The descendants of Solomon’s servants included:

Sotai’s descendants, Hassophereth’s descendants, Peruda’s descendants,

As for me, is my complaint against a man?
Then why shouldn’t I be impatient?

Then they attacked all the cities around Gerar because the terror of the Lord was on them. They also plundered all the cities, since there was a great deal of plunder in them.

David said to God, “Wasn’t I the one who gave the order to count the people? I am the one who has sinned and acted very wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? My Lord God, please let Your hand be against me and against my father’s family, but don’t let the plague be against Your people.”

and he threw it, thinking, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David got away from him twice.

Then Shaphan the court secretary went to the king and reported, “Your servants have emptied out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hand of those doing the work—those who oversee the Lord’s temple.”

Now Jeroboam had sent an ambush around to advance from behind them. So they were in front of Judah, and the ambush was behind them.

So David and his men, numbering about 600, left Keilah at once and moved from place to place. When it was reported to Saul that David had escaped from Keilah, he called off the expedition.

and so that you do not associate with these nations remaining among you. Do not call on the names of their gods or make an oath to them; do not worship them or bow down to them.

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight just as his father Uzziah had done.

He did what was right in the Lord’s sight, but not like his ancestor David. He did everything his father Joash had done.

Then Saul threw his spear at Jonathan to kill him, so he knew that his father was determined to kill David.

Jonathan spoke well of David to his father Saul. He said to him: “The king should not sin against his servant David. He hasn’t sinned against you; in fact, his actions have been a great advantage to you.

Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war, and their names were Eliab, the firstborn, Abinadab, the next, and Shammah, the third,

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they took possession of according to the Lord’s command through Moses.

Even if your exiles are at the ends of the earth, He will gather you and bring you back from there.

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name, and they are to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.

To the west, the boundary turned to Aznoth-tabor and went from there to Hukkok, reaching Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and Judah at the Jordan on the east.

The sixth lot came out for Naphtali’s descendants by their clans.

The children born to them in the third generation may enter the Lord’s assembly.

and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the Ammonites;

You will pay the redemption price for a month-old male according to your assessment: five shekels of silver by the standard sanctuary shekel, which is 20 gerahs.

If any of them falls into any clay pot, everything in it will become unclean; you must break it.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

For seven days you must make atonement for the altar and consecrate it. The altar will become especially holy; whatever touches the altar will become holy.

You must not go outside the entrance to the tent of meeting for seven days, until the time your days of ordination are completed, because it will take seven days to ordain you.

Then burn the whole ram on the altar; it is a burnt offering to the Lord. It is a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

“I washed you with water, rinsed off your blood, and anointed you with oil.

Then Joseph took them both—with his right hand Ephraim toward Israel’s left, and with his left hand Manasseh toward Israel’s right—and brought them to Israel.

Suppose my father touches me. Then I will be revealed to him as a deceiver and bring a curse rather than a blessing on myself.”

Benjamin’s sons: Bela, Becher, Ashbel, Gera, Naaman, Ehi, Rosh, Muppim, Huppim, and Ard.

This is what the Lord says:

I will certainly restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents
and show compassion on his dwellings.
Every city will be rebuilt on its mound;
every citadel will stand on its proper site.

That day Laban removed the streaked and spotted male goats and all the speckled and spotted female goats—every one that had any white on it—and every dark-colored one among the lambs, and he placed his sons in charge of them.

Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”

They discussed it among themselves: “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why didn’t you believe him?’

I don’t want to see you now just in passing, for I hope to spend some time with you, if the Lord allows.

They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

Do you see a man who speaks too soon?
There is more hope for a fool than for him.

But the Lord is my refuge;
my God is the rock of my protection.

Though he piles up silver like dust
and heaps up a wardrobe like clay—

I call for my servant, but he does not answer,
even if I beg him with my own mouth.

a lion, which is mightiest among beasts
and doesn’t retreat before anything,

The folds of his flesh are joined together,
solid as metal and immovable.

Make their fortification desolate;
may no one live in their tents.

David put his hand in the bag, took out a stone, slung it, and hit the Philistine on his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the ground.

After all these things, the Lord afflicted him in his intestines with an incurable disease.

So be very diligent to love the Lord your God for your own well-being.

son of Ethan, son of Zimmah,
son of Shimei,

When they had gone through the whole land, they returned to Jerusalem at the end of nine months and 20 days.

You are not to reap what grows by itself from your crop, or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. It must be a year of complete rest for the land.

The rest of the events of Jehoshaphat’s reign, along with the might he exercised and how he waged war, are written in the Historical Record of Judah’s Kings.

Then you will again obey Him and follow all His commands I am giving you today.

There we were, binding sheaves of grain in the field. Suddenly my sheaf stood up, and your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf.”

So Joshua summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and said to them, “I am old, getting on in years,

your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed.

2⁄5 of an ounce per man, that is, half a shekel according to the sanctuary shekel, from everyone 20 years old or more who had crossed over to the registered group, 603,550 men.

Then Moses asked Aaron, “What did these people do to you that you have led them into such a grave sin?”

From there they went to Beer, the well the Lord told Moses about, “Gather the people so I may give them water.”

Anyone who eats it will bear his punishment, for he has profaned what is holy to the Lord. That person must be cut off from his people.

After putting His hands on them, He went on from there.

“They will live in the land that I gave to My servant Jacob, where your fathers lived. They will live in it forever with their children and grandchildren, and My servant David will be their prince forever.

“Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: I am against you because you have spoken falsely and had lying visions.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

but Jacob went on to Succoth. He built a house for himself and stalls for his livestock; that is why the place was called Succoth.

I will punish Bel in Babylon.
I will make him vomit what he swallowed.
The nations will no longer stream to him;
even Babylon’s wall will fall.

you claim, “I am innocent.
His anger is sure to turn away from me.”
But I will certainly judge you
because you have said, “I have not sinned.”

I will add 15 years to your life. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

A rope lies hidden for him on the ground,
and a snare waits for him along the path.

So they went to war against Judah and invaded it. They carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace and also his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest son.

The king commanded all the people, “Keep the Passover of the Lord your God as written in the book of the covenant.”

so he pretended to be insane in their presence. He acted like a madman around them, scribbling on the doors of the gate and letting saliva run down his beard.

Remember that you should praise His work,
which people have sung about.

He has filled him with God’s Spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in every kind of craft

Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?”

David replied, “To buy the threshing floor from you in order to build an altar to the Lord, so the plague on the people may be halted.”

Then he ignited the torches and released the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. He burned up the piles of grain and the standing grain as well as the vineyards and olive groves.

He walked in all the ways his father had walked; he served the idols his father had served, and he worshiped them.

you are to set apart three cities for yourselves within the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

As the Philistine leaders were passing in review with their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men were passing in review behind them with Achish.

and David was the youngest. The three oldest had followed Saul,

Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,

For both of you broke faith with Me among the Israelites at the waters of Meribath-kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin by failing to treat Me as holy in their presence.

“If a woman in her husband’s house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

So Joseph stored up grain in such abundance—like the sand of the sea—that he stopped measuring it because it was beyond measure.

So they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.

These were Manasseh’s clans, numbered by their registered men: 52,700.

So they conferred together and bought the potter’s field with it as a burial place for foreigners.

“What is your name?” the man asked.

“Jacob,” he replied.

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”

Moab was terrified of the people because they were numerous, and Moab dreaded the Israelites.

“When those who were hired about five came, they each received one denarius.

However, we must run aground on a certain island.”

In fact, we rejoice when we are weak and you are strong. We also pray that you become fully mature.

But they replied, “We do not drink wine, for Jonadab, son of our ancestor Rechab, commanded: ‘You and your sons must never drink wine.

and lends at interest or for profit, will he live? He will not live! Since he has committed all these detestable acts, he will certainly die. His blood will be on him.

Abraham went back to his young men, and they got up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham settled in Beer-sheba.

Putting in at Syracuse, we stayed three days.

for their hearts plan violence,
and their words stir up trouble.

The Lord executes acts of righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.

“Ask the Lord on our behalf, since Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the Lord will perform for us something like all His past wonderful works so that Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us.”

Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house;
otherwise, he’ll get sick of you and hate you.

A leader who lacks understanding
is very oppressive,
but one who hates dishonest profit
prolongs his life.

Fields will be purchased with silver, the transaction written on a scroll and sealed, and witnesses will be called on in the land of Benjamin, in the areas surrounding Jerusalem, and in Judah’s cities—the cities of the hill country, the cities of the Judean foothills, and the cities of the Negev—because I will restore their fortunes.”

This is the Lord’s declaration.

There is gold and a multitude of jewels,
but knowledgeable lips are a rare treasure.

They gather their fodder in the field
and glean the vineyards of the wicked.

I have spoken once, and I will not reply;
twice, but now I can add nothing.

All memory of him perishes from the earth;
he has no name anywhere.

The following day they offered sacrifices to the Lord and burnt offerings to the Lord: 1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, and 1,000 lambs, along with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I must make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

Would He prosecute me forcefully?
No, He will certainly pay attention to me.

Jehoshabeath, the king’s daughter, rescued Joash son of Ahaziah from the king’s sons who were being killed and put him and the one who nursed him in a bedroom. Now Jehoshabeath was the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest. Since she was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she did not kill him.

Then Jehoiada put the oversight of the Lord’s temple into the hands of the Levitical priests, whom David had appointed over the Lord’s temple, to offer burnt offerings to the Lord as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and song ordained by David.

Abishai son of Zeruiah struck down 18,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt.

and he said, “Throw her down!” So they threw her down, and some of her blood splattered on the wall and on the horses, and Jehu rode over her.

I will turn against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee even though no one is pursuing you.

He did what was evil in the Lord’s sight. He walked in the way of his father, in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin.

The officers will continue to address the army and say, ‘Is there any man who is afraid or cowardly? Let him leave and return home, so that his brothers’ hearts won’t melt like his own.’

This is what you requested from the Lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, ‘Let us not continue to hear the voice of the Lord our God or see this great fire any longer, so that we will not die!’

He took the bronze altar that was before the Lord in front of the temple between his altar and the Lord’s temple, and put it on the north side of his altar.

But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who accomplished such a great deliverance for Israel? No, as the Lord lives, not a hair of his head will fall to the ground, for he worked with God’s help today.” So the people redeemed Jonathan, and he did not die.

Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Listen! I heard your father talking with your brother Esau. He said,

Therefore, divide this land as an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

Sarah denied it. “I did not laugh,” she said, because she was afraid.

But He replied, “No, you did laugh.”

Better to live on the corner of a roof
than to share a house with a nagging wife.

When Jacob had finished instructing his sons, he drew his feet into the bed and died. He was gathered to his people.

These are the tribes of Israel, 12 in all, and this was what their father said to them. He blessed them, and he blessed each one with a suitable blessing.

So Isaac settled in Gerar.

Therefore give orders that the tomb be made secure until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come, steal Him, and tell the people, ‘He has been raised from the dead.’ Then the last deception will be worse than the first.”

But I will sing of Your strength
and will joyfully proclaim
Your faithful love in the morning.
For You have been a stronghold for me,
a refuge in my day of trouble.

Now it is not an enemy who insults me—
otherwise I could bear it;
it is not a foe who rises up against me—
otherwise I could hide from him.

Where could I ever go with my disgrace? And you—you would be like one of the immoral men in Israel! Please, speak to the king, for he won’t keep me from you.”

A king’s rage is like the roaring of a lion,
but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Then the men who tended them fled. They went into the city and reported everything—especially what had happened to those who were demon-possessed.

Let us shout for joy at your victory
and lift the banner in the name of our God.
May Yahweh fulfill all your requests.

‘The one who moves his neighbor’s boundary marker is cursed.’
And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’